'Unknown' , pl see my earlier mails couple of months back, i am particularly interested in Suthaikoils built of lime and motar which is older than katralikoils which were first built around 600-700 AD - Parameshwara pallavan - siva kovil at Kooram near Kancheepuram - Arakonam road
Dear Mathikumar, WOW, that's really early for So. India! Do you have any photos of Murthis from?
Here's a photo of the perfect Natesha, from Kuram -- is this the same site? What I love are early 'murthis' -- earlier images seem to be finer, artistically. Thanks for contacting me. What info I have from Kuram is : Vidyavinita Pallaveshvara = dilapidated - UPENN list ADIKESAVA PERUMAL - 808- upper Nandis replaced by GARUDAs Tripurantakeshvara Kovil ~ late Chozha.
* bronze NATARAJA in urdhva-Jhanu ' TERROR DANCE ' [see AVANI] ~ early 9th cen. one of the very finest K.M. says T. neglected ~ ~ 1st stone T. in TN late, transitional K. Mathikumar [Ponni] says 700 century BRONZE : NATARAJA [see AVANI] early 9th cen. [ like prancing] in Govt. Mus. CHENNAI
only PALLAVA one known of in bronze, holds cobra in one hand - one of very best- fine youthful face, prabha broken off, gana faces forward,very much like one from Kilakkadu -D. Barrett > Dear Kathy, > > 'Unknown' , pl see my earlier mails couple of months back, i am > particularly interested in Suthaikoils built of lime and motar which > is older than katralikoils which were first built around 600-700 AD > - Parameshwara pallavan - siva kovil at Kooram near Kancheepuram - > Arakonam road > > wwr > Mathikumar